'Military Report on Persian Seistan' [‎53r] (110/188)

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BAGHAK—
A village situated on the Yaka Band, containing 10 ploughs of
arable land. Government revenue 120 kharwars. There are 60 houses in the
village which owns 130 cattle, 200 sheep and goats, and 50 donkeys.—
{Napier, Ahmad Din.)
BAKIR—
A village.— {H. D. Napier.)
BALA KHANA —
A village situated on the Shehraki Canal, containing 6 ploughs of arable
land. Government revenue 60 kharwars per annum.— {Ahmad Din.)
There are 50 houses in the village which owns 17 cattle and 50 donkeys.
BAL-I-KIMAB— _
A halting place between Bandan and Seistan, about eight miles from
Bandan. Water from pools in the river-bed. The Bandan stream does not
flow beyond here. There is a reservoir of water about a farsakh further on.
—{C. E. Yate.)
BANDAN— Lat. 31° 28' 0"; Long. 60° 49' 0"; Elev. 2,081'— (#. Z). Napier.)
A walled village at the mouth of a gorge in the hills, containing some
thirty houses. It is really in the Neh-Bandan buluk of the Kain district
of Khorasan, but being on the Seistan border it is described here. Supplies
are procurable, but the water is brackish.
There is a considerable date-grove in the valley above the village, contain
ing about 6,000 trees, which are taxed by Government. Each tree yields
about 3 lbs. of dates in an ordinary year. Good dates can be procured here
for about 1 kran per 4^ lbs. Bandan, being on the Kain*Seistan frontier,
has a service of 15 matchlock footmen to serve as guides and guards ; they
receive a Government allowance.— {C. E. Yate.)
BANDAR-I-KAMAL KHAN— .
A village inhabited by people of the Sanjarani tribe, formerly the property
of Imam Khan (deceased), who made it over to Sharif Khan. —(Aa^r.)
BAND-I-AFGHAN- ... -
A succession of bands or embarkments, which turn on almost all the
Helmand water from the old or main bed of the river into the Warshufti
district. The river below the band is only a small stream 3 feet deep by
30 yards wide.— {C. E. Yate.)
BAND-I-KUHAK or BAND-I-SEISTAN—
The Persian dam thrown across the Helmand river to divert water
towards Persian Seistan and situated at about 4 miles from Khwaja Ahmad
and about a mile from the fort of Kuhak. t ,
The road to the Band i-Seistan is rather round-about owing to irrigation
canals. About half-way lies the old village of Khwaja Ahmad, now
nothing but the ruins of a circular wall round the top of a mound. A
or so beyond that again lies the small fort of Kuhak on the top of anothei
mound, now quite deserted. , „ .
The band, or dam, we found to be broken away for about a tourtn its
length on the Afghan side, and the water flowing freely through it. The
river is in considerable flood now (28th February 1894), owing to the recent
rains, and will remain so throughout the spring and summer, and the Land will